Years ago I worked among the homeless in Skid Row. I recall that we served two different meals: one to the staff men who worked and lived with us, and one for the men who came to us directly from the street. The staff would get a better fare- a balanced meal (though I remember it very heavy on carbs!). The homeless would get a stew or beans with bread.
We got a new director who saw this discrepency and decided to do something about it. Standing before all the staff men, he announced that these differences would no longer be tolerated. Henceforth all men would be treated equally with regard to meals. It was a rousing speech and one of the few times I actually saw the staff men stand and cheer. Someone was here to put things right at last!
Imagine their disappointment the next day when they found their meals now consisted of the plainer fare- beans and bread or stew and bread. Yes, things were now the same, just as promised. How awful was the result!
So it is with me when politicians promise national health care for all. I always think of those poor gullible souls believing in their director. Government will apportion and deny health care in the most bizarre fashion- and we will all make do with a plainer fare.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
4 comments:
bunk.
you are entitled to your cute little story but my opinion in reply is bunk.
now the challenge- prove what you just said. show me or others who may have read your blog PROOF that the government is going to deny. not much of your homeless shelter story sounded in the least bit real to me. it was in fact- weak.
i work as a volunteer for span ohio and i got some bad news for you- we're not having much trouble getting signatures on our petitions. i also found another blog like yours out of kansas city and i have to say his argument was stronger than yours yet i shut his butt down too.
you guys keep posting this excrement but you forget someone somewhere might read it and it could fly back in your faces. like today.
Sometimes the best reply of all is not to bother.
Pat, was that when Lee first began at URM? That was before my time. I recall that we Program guys ate separately from the guys on the street. But the fare was about the same. For lunch or dinner we got potatoes and some sort of meat and bug juice and greens and doughnuts. Plus we got the doughnuts in the VSC, and the tea and coffee in the VSC.
David,
Yes, obviously I did not want to mention names, just get the story right. I think many of the men figured out what socialism really was when it hit them that way.
Post a Comment